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How to Receive Krsna’s Message

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada

New York City April 9, 1969

Lord Krsna Himself sets up the system by which His teachings find their way to us.

sri-prahrada uvaca
kaumara acaret prajno
dharman bhagavatan iha
durlabham manusam janma
tad apy adhruvam arthadam

Prahlada Maharaja said: One who is sufficiently intelligent should use the human form of body from the very beginning of life in other words, fr

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The Real Thing is Bhakti

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada

Back To Godhead - Krishna Balarama

Vrndavana, India August 15, 1974

Lord Krsna tells us how He reveals Himself to us in many ways just to draw out our love for Him.

punyo gandhah prthivyam ca
tejas casmi vibhavasau
jivanam sarva-bhutesu
tapas casmi tapasvisu

"I am the original fragrance of the earth, and I am the heat in fire. I am the life of all that lives, and I am the penances of all ascetics." Bh

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Dear Prabhu's and Mataji's:

 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

Attached you will find the information for the next Bhakti-vriksha convention to be held in Sri Mayapur Dham.

 

Please mark your calendar and book your rooms quickly. Since the convention will be right after Gourapurnima, we encourage you to make your arrangements as soon as possible. Please note that due to the Gourapurnima festival, you may not be able to book rooms before the convention. But rooms w

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is-Bg. 2.44

TEXT 44
 
bhogaiśvarya-prasaktānāṁ
tayāpahṛta-cetasām
vyavasāyātmikā buddhiḥ
samādhau na vidhīyate
 
SYNONYMS
 
bhoga—material enjoyment; aiśvarya—opulence; prasaktānām—those who are so attached; tayā—by such things; apahṛta-cetasām—bewildered in mind; vyavasāyātmikā—fixed determination; buddhiḥ—devotional service of the Lord; samādhau—in the controlled mind; na—never; vidhīyate—does take place.
 
TRANSLATION
 
In the minds of those who are too attached to sense enjoyment and material opulence, and who are b
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Why did we abandon Him?

Seeing Krishna entering Dwarka, the citizens immediately rushed towards Him. In absence of Krishna they were extremely fearful and were eagerly waiting for Him. There fear vanished when they saw Krishna. Out of love they brought several gifts for the Lord and the Lord happily accepted it.

In this world everyone lives in anxiety and in constant fear. The cause of fear is uncertainty. Material nature with which we are associating is very powerful & uncertain, we cannot confront it alone. We need sh

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Thought Of The Day

So everyone is engaged in so-called duties but forget the real duty. This is called maya. By the spell of maya we forget what is the objective of life, what is the aim of life. This is called maya. We are thinking this is our duty. No. Real duty in the human form of life is here is a chance whether you want to go to home to back to Godhead or again you want to go to hell, the repetition of birth and death.

 

By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada

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By Patience And Practice

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Vrndavana October 20, 1972

All the great conclusions of devotional service will be automatically revealed
to the practitioner if he follows the rules and regulations given by his spiritual master.
 
Pradyumna (reading): "A living entity is offered a particular type of body as a result of his action in the present body. These activities are taken into account by superior
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Nothing But Service

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Srila Prabhupada

Vrndavana, October 21, 1972

A devotee of Krsna has no desire for material
gains; he only wants to serve God.

The Krsna consciousness message is Krsnas tu bhagavan svayam [Bhag.1.3.28]. There is no other Bhagavan. Bhagavan means full of six opulences. So Krsna is completely, cent percent full of all opulences. Even Narayana, He is ninety-six percent. And Lord Siva is eig

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Greed For God

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Srila Prabhupada

Bombay,decemer 26,1972
Eagerness to serve KnlJa without personal like for pleasure or renunciation is the only desire of a pure devotee.
 
Devotee (Reading from The Nectar of Devotion): "The Lord particularly instructed Rupa Goswami on the science of Krsna conscious … "
 
Prabhupada: So here the point is that Sanatana Goswami, Sakara Mallik,was so mad after meeting Caitan
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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - Bg. 2.42-2.43

TEXTS 42-43
 
yām imāṁ puṣpitāṁ vācaṁ
pravadanty avipaścitaḥ
veda-vāda-ratāḥ pārtha
nānyad astīti vādinaḥ
 
kāmātmānaḥ svarga-parā
janma-karma-phala-pradām
kriyā-viśeṣa-bahulāṁ
bhogaiśvarya-gatiṁ prati
 
SYNONYMS
 
yām imām—all these; puṣpitām—flowery; vācam—words; pravadanti—say; avipaścitaḥ—men with a poor fund of knowledge; veda-vāda-ratāḥ—supposed followers of the Vedas; pārtha—O son of Pṛthā; na—never; anyat—anything else; asti—there is; iti—this; vādinaḥ—advocates; kāma-ātmānaḥ—desirous of sense gratifi
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From Chemical Solution To The Ultimate Solution
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OLD BTG ARTICLE in 1980's

From Chemical Solution To The Ultimate Solution by Lokanatha Swami The unseen merciful hand of Lord Krsna helps a determined young science student become one of Srila Prabhupada's first Indian disciples.

I was born in Aravade, a small village in the Indian state of Maharashtra that differs little from more than seven hundred thousand others in India. After I graduated from high school, my family sent me to Bombay to study che

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Yamaraj and the Lawyer

Yamaraj and the Lawyer

A Brilliant Story

Once a very prominent lawyer was to die. Lawyers always send notices on behalf of their clients. They send notices, 'Please pay my client within the next forty days. Otherwise we will take you to court and possess your goods. Please vacate my client's flat in the next one month'. Before taking action they always send you a notice.

This lawyer, he was a very prominent lawyer, he was about to die. He protested to Yamaraj, 'Yamaraj! You cannot let me die right

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Controlling Mind Is So Easy!

Mind always demand for more and more. No matter how much we satisfy it but like a mad elephant it keeps us tormenting. All the crimes which occur are due to the uncontrolled mind. Criminals too are aware about righteous and unrighteous activities. But there unbridled mind drag them towards the hellish path and thus they invite misery for themselves and afflict miseries on others too.

Great personalities throughout ages have accepted this harsh reality. Arjuna too admits it in Bhagavat – Gita – “F

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Thought Of The Day

The real purpose of life, goal of life, is to satisfy Visnu. Visnu, Lord, the Supreme Lord, or Krsna. This is life, to become Krsna conscious, to know Krsna, and try to satisfy Him. That is life.

 

By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada

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realizing Krsna , through the MIND

Man , no matter how much he claims to be, he is not independent. He is not uncontrolled. He is subjected to death and the three modes of material nature. He may claim that he is not subject to the material energy or the nature around him. However, given time, he blindly follows the temptations of the body / the desires of the mind. Vedic sastras claim that the most perfect goal is the conquering of the mind. it is through the mind that man can realize himself. it is through the mind man can real

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India

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Bharatavarsa is not an ordinary country.
It is punya-bhümi where Bhagavan comes.

Srila Prabhupada, Lecture, Bhuvanesvara, January 22, 1977)

Kumbha-Mela

India

By culture, by birth, the land of Bharatavarsa is punya-bhümi. You will still find millions of people coming to take bath in the Kumbha-mela to take a dip into the Ganges because they think it is pious. So the spiritual fluid is flowing through the veins of Indians. Unfortuna

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Do it for Krsna

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Vrndavana, October 28, 1972

Srila Prabhupada

Bhakti means we should simply accept and do that which is favorable to Krsna.

Pradyumna: (reading) Originally in Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu, the ocean is divided like the watery ocean into east, west, north, and south, while the sub-sections within these different divisions are called waves. As in the ocean, there are always different waves, eit

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Brain Damaging Habits

1. No Breakfast

People who do not take breakfast are going to have a lower blood sugar level.

This leads to an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain causing brain degeneration.

2 . Overeating

It causes hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in mental power.

3. Smoking

It causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimer disease.

4. High Sugar consumption

Too much sugar will interrupt the absorption of proteins and nutrients causing

malnutrition and may in

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Thought Of The Day

Those who are determined that "In this life we shall finish this material way of life, or material..." That is real struggle for existence. Actually everyone is trying. Material life means it is full of distress, duhkhalayam. Krsna says. So so long you'll prolong this material way of life, that is called struggle for existence. The "struggle for existence" and "survival of the fittest," this word is very common but nobody knows what is that struggle for existence and what is the platform of beco

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